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>It's a creativity-driven field that moves quickly, evolves hourly, and requires intellectual agility. That does describe what is expected of military members
by Perdition 12y ago
>It's a creativity-driven field that moves quickly, evolves hourly, and requires intellectual agility.
That does describe what is expected of military members in combat operations, so it isn't like the military shouldn't be able to apply that philosophy to this area.
I would think the issue is that the "cyberwarfare" group is new and so is being run like an ordinary technical unit, which means procedures and process out the ears and limited flexibility. The military could easily free them of that and let the unit run itself like a special operations unit.
- superuser2 12y ago>That does describe what is expected of military members in combat operations Isn't the tactical playbook set On High? Obviously you need to react to a changing situation in combat, but wouldn't the standard responses to various situations be planned/tested/approved and then turned into training material by some central authority? Or is that sort of thing more up to officers in the field?
- Perdition 12y agoNo. There are tactical principles that are taught, and basic tactical approaches, but a "tactical playbook" would be completely unwieldy. The Soviet military used that system, including algorithms to determine which tactical approach to apply. Western military's have long focused on small unit initiative and rewarding novel tactics. A wartime military is the ultimate meritocracy. Even in WWI, which is often stereotyped as stupid generals sending men walking into machine gun fire, there was a huge amount of tactical innovation from the lower levels (by 1917 they had developed the small unit tactics we still use today).
- superuser2 12y agoThank you, I honestly didn't know that. Interesting.